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Most of the upper eschalon of 343 have left or were kicked out over the last year, including some of the worst offenders who drove the creation of the crap we've had recently such as Kiki Wolf kill.

It seems like they're internally rebuilding 343 because they know how much of a powerhouse that IP can be if done right. I'm not optimistic about the next Halo, but cautiously hopeful now at least.

If nothing else, the feds on the SC investigation can learn about the wonder that is deep fried green tomatoes

I wonder, also, how much that increase in children being employed illegally is them needing to in order to make ends meet at home due to corporate greedflation running rampant?

Like, yes, the companies shouldn't hire the kids. But also, we should address why those kids are willing to work those jobs in the first place.

Wasn't that already an issue in Florida last year?

I thought she'd been smacked down and told to stop lollygagging. Man, I didn't think I could be more disappointed in our legal system but daily I'm proven wrong. Didn't Jack Smith file at the start of April to have her removed from the case?

Just a reminder that, at least as of 2020, the NYPD alone is in the top 30 military budgets in the world when compared to full countries. They spent $10,900,000,000 (that's 11 billion if you don't wanna count the zeroes out).

I'm really open to anything. I tend to lean towards RPGs or story games (Life is Strange, Dear Esther, and Stanley Parable for instance) but I play most anything.

It's unsanitary. Don't want nothin spreading. My kitchens though, let's just say my lasagna ain't the only thing cooking in there.

Spent a lot of time with engineers, but am not one myself. Most grinding discs and things that wear stuff down have a surface made to rip in, and higher opposed friction. Think sandpaper, it digs into a surface with those hills from the grit, and uses the friction to then drag through cutting the surface and removing material.

With this floor, it looks like the wheels are smooth, so all though there's some friction, it isn't a cutting action. There's also the fact that their friction is unopposed and can actually move the person, so the energy gets converted into movement, not the cutting force that would grind things down.

They really are just tiny treadmills, the only reason they're discs is so they can be tilted to change the direction the "treadmill" is going to push you. If the disc is tilted to the right, the left most edge is going forward, if the disk is tilted to the left, that right edge is moving backwards. Otherwise exact same principle as a treadmill of creating friction to move the object on it.

Hope that helps some. Diagrams would probably help more.

In some games there's no real cost to leaving other than lost time (which can still be a decent amount for games like Destiny 2 depending on what tool you used to get players for the raid). If you're doing something like ranked in Halo Infinite, leaving drops you the maximum possible rank loss and can sometimes take three or four wins to earn that back.

For many games, the amount of un-mic'd people trying to do these highly co-ordinated activities is large enough that it could be a mind boggling amount of aborted matches before you find a full team with mics.

That being said, I don't support OP's opinion (it's a great example of unpopular opinion though). Most any game I've played has had some way of creating a friends list of reliable mic'd players that you can continually team back up with. Halo infinite uses the Xbox friend list, Destiny 2 has their own friend list (but can also show you which friend from Steam or Xbox or PSN are on), Final Fantasy XIV has guilds, and so on. Most every time I've had a good match with someone in a game, I add them, and 9 times out of 10 they add back, and it becomes a great time. If people nowadays aren't taking advantage of those lists in games, they need to accept the downside of the random people likely not having a mic or a lower skill level.

Do you have any examples of smaller studio made games with flashy imagery and effects to match the good story? Really I'm just looking for game recs and want to get away from the usual "big" names for a bit.

Just bring a couple extra flashlights, and maybe a light switch and you'll be fine.

It depends. Without systemic changes to prevent a new set of people from just grabbing everything up, in a short time we're right back here in garbage land. We need forceful collective changes with safeguards placed for the future.

Fully agree it's a common refrain. And one I never understood. Even with my job where I can and do work fully remote, most of the places they always recommend have such terrible infrastructure I wouldn't be able to do my job, DSL wouldn't cut it.

I miss playing medic in TF2 back when the game was big for similar reason. Was always fun to watch the flow of battle and pop your Uber on the right player to help a push you saw coming. Didn't need a mic or chat, just vibes. Even when I was in chat with people it usually was taking about Ulduar or a new metal band, not the game.

I've played FFXIV some though never got to the real high end content like Omega. In general that games has one of the better PUG scenes and I could see it being doable for high end and have heard from some doing it on occasion when their guild raid groups don't have room.

The game has a player mentor system that actively encourages teaching others and collaborating and, at least in my experience, it works. You'll occasionally still come across toxic of course but even they often get shouted down by the other mentors. This leaks out into most other parts of the game in a positive way and can sometimes make grinding harder raids fine because they just accept it as a teaching moment.

(Keep in mind I'm speaking about my one server only, not the 30 others, you're mileage may vary. And I'm not talking about the weird erotic roleplay world that has also sprung up in that game.)

Wait, your bathrooms don't have a doctor handing out shots hanging around in the corner?

If you're cool with lower poly graphics, ADACA was recently recommended to me. Haven't tried it yet but looks to be set in Pacific Northwest.

Found the bot who can't read. International waters near south Korea with an actual mission against north korea. That's not "operating near China". If that was the case, the world should be nothing but bloody war, just about every country has military at their border. That's near another country.

And the biggest reason this is a double dick move by China, the Seahawk was on a UN mission. Guess who's part of UN. That's right. China.

Most say it because they remember when Netflix had everything. It was a nice easy one stop shop and they want that again. Maybe it would need to be more extensive, sure, but every company stopped agreeing to license to Netflix because they wanted a larger peace of the pie. Sure they have the right, but people also have the right to not like it.